I never had one of those little EZ-bake ovens as a child - I got to make real cakes in a proper oven from about 7 onwards.

I wonder if this thing is really a good idea - just how hot do you suppose it gets? And baking stuff releases moisture - which can't do your PC any good when it condenses on the inside of the case and drips onto the motherboard....

Well you know that the G5 Macs are water cooled, don't you? I'm sure a physicist could work out some way of using the heat generated by a cpu to generate the steam - I know somebody has fried an egg on one before.

I've seen pictures of the tankers in the Afrika Korps in WW2 frying eggs and bacon for breakfast on the fenders of their tanks. Just imagine riding around *INSIDE* one of those metal boxes full of hot stinky gasses from the rounds you've just fired off...

I think of it as the "watched pot" theory. As soon as I leave my desk I'll get a slew of messages and voicemails, and when I come back my previously mellow and boring morning will be all busy and stressed.